Champions of affordable housing barely had time to celebrate legislative and budgetary victories before COVID-19 swept Virginia into a state of emergency, leaving budget allocations up in the air and revealing gaps in State and local safety nets.
AHS Encourages Updated Zoning Tools to Increase Affordable Housing
The ABCs of Affordable Housing in Arlington
County Board Candidates Respond to Housing Questions
Coalition Offers Strategies to Increase Production of Affordable Housing in Arlington
Progressive Voice: The AHMP Two Years Later - Full Speed Ahead
In a recent Progressive Voice column for ARLNow, our Executive Director Michelle Winters had the opportunity to weigh in on how we are doing two years after the Affordable Housing Master Plan was created. In the column, Michelle discusses the loss of critical market-rate affordable units, the worsening political environment, and the shortage of funding in the context of the Arlington housing market.
Will Arlington Open its Doors to Smaller Homes?
One of the biggest drivers of cost for housing is size, and when it comes to single-family homes, square footage has been on the rise nationwide for decades. If larger sizes drive up costs, then smaller sizes could help reduce them, potentially producing more affordable or moderately-priced options for people in our community. Smaller housing options such as tiny homes, cottage housing, and detached accessory dwellings are one part of the vital missing middle housing.
Regional Housing Group Produces Catalog of Housing Affordability Tools
County Prepares to Update Accessory Dwelling Ordinance
Seeking Solutions During Affordable Housing Month
Moving Forward on the AHMP
Supporting the Affordable Housing Master Plan
As Arlington's Affordable Housing Master Plan was approaching a vote by the County Board in fall of 2015, AHS reached out to its mailing list with a Q&A on the plan, urging support, links to key documents, and a call to action. AHS also ran two full-page ads (click on an image below for a larger view) in the Arlington Sun Gazette (September 10 and 17, 2015) to provide information to the larger Arlington community. The County Board adopted the AHMP after a September 19 hearing (more on that hearing, with link to video, here).
AHS Sun Gazette Ad #1
AHS Sun Gazette Ad #2